The tobacco plant’s origins can now be traced back to Bolivia, in South America. The people native to this land cultivated the plant and used it as part of their cultural traditions. Between ...

In order to clarify the correlation between these two enzymes and stress tolerance, we produced transgenic tobacco plants that overexpress SOD or APX in chloroplasts. Total SOD activity of the SOD ...

The scientists hijacked a relative of the tobacco plant's metabolism to turn its leaves into polio-vaccine "factories". First, they needed to create new instructions for the plant to follow.

He found tribes growing Columbian tobacco next to their plankhouses. It was carefully cultivated and didn’t grow in the wild forests. When he asked to take the plant’s seeds back with him ...